Date Book: Praises, Questions and Requests

One of the deal makers for me and the n800 is the availability of GVM. I anticipated the ability to run Date Book as a great thing. I had stopped using my Clie and missed it, mostly Date Book. While I had OS07 running I got GVM and was working on learning how to use it. Very exciting.

I was one of those few who had a n800 that would not flash to OS08. After a frustrating dance with Nokia, they did me right and sent me a new machine. During the wait I fired up the old Clie and reacquainted myself with it’s great features and limitations.

Date Book: Is there a better PIM anywhere? It is so very integrated, customizable, direct. The only thing missing is a spellcheck!

New n800 in hand and I got busy downloading and setting things up. Had read here that although GVM works, the PalmOS can’t access the sound functions. No alarms! Well that won’t do! Tried GPE and all of its pieces. Maybe I haven’t worked the setup correctly but To Do’s and the Calendar are not integrated! Not even the categories. Yikes. Back to Date Book.

So questions: is it true that Date Book doesn’t access the n800's sound? You can’t hear an alarm? Will Date Book sync with online PIMs using n800's WiFi? Will the non-Beta release of GVM address these issues? What is happening on the GVM development front?

I Have a Clie but have no need to sync it up with the GVM or my laptop. Can I use the Palm Desktop and HotSync Manager?

Although I am scheduling a dense round of Linux tutorials, I am aiming for competence with cl and structural understanding so I can follow directions in troubleshooting and setting up projects such as a USB host mode applet, not programing. What are the chances of getting either a feature rich, integrated PIM, such as Date Book written or enticing Palmico to port this over?

If we all asked pretty pretty pleas would they?